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Inestimably

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in·es·ti·ma·ble  (n-st-m-bl)
adj.
1. Impossible to estimate or compute: inestimable damage. See Synonyms at incalculable.
2. Of immeasurable value or worth; invaluable: "shared all the inestimable advantages of being wealthy, good-looking, confident and intelligent" Doris Kearns Goodwin.
in·esti·ma·bly adv.
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This entails the practical disadvantage of making the Bible--events, characters, and ideas--seem less real and living; but on the other hand it helps inestimably to create the finer imaginative atmosphere which is so essential for the genuine religious spirit.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
I bore my share of that inestimably precious burden with a manly tenderness, with a fatherly care.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
The windows, heavily shaded by trees, admitted a subdued light that made the faces around me pale, and darkened the old brasses in the pavement and the time and damp-worn monuments, and rendered the sunshine in the little porch, where a monotonous ringer was working at the bell, inestimably bright.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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